A postal worker in the East Bay was held at gunpoint earlier this week, surveillance footage shows, and forced to give up her mailbox keys and cellphone. The video, published by KTVU, shows two masked men run up behind a U.S. Postal Service worker outside a residential mailbox, grab her and point a gun at her. The robbery happened Monday in broad daylight, at approximately 4:30 p.m., in Dublin near the cul-de-sac of Obispo Court, the Dublin Police Services said in a news release. The robbers...
Xavi, 7 years old, pounds nails into a wooden board. Once he finishes sealing this wall, his secret hideout will be complete. Then, with his backpack full of books, he can crawl in through the hidden back entrance. “You get to basically do whatever you want,” he says, nonchalantly, as he gives his hammer another gentle swing. In most places, the sight of grade schoolers hunched over workbenches, diligently sawing at blocks of wood, might set off alarm bells. But this activity is a healthy...
BioMarin Pharmaceutical, a San Rafael-based biotech company specializing in drugs for genetic disorders, is laying off swaths of its Bay Area staff. The company is letting go of 170 total employees, according to a Tuesday filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Per a WARN notice filed in California, at least 117 of those people work in the Bay Area. The California notice, required by the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act because of the size of the layoff, listed 42...
March 8, 1989 was an ordinary day for Cathy Zimmer. That morning, the Bay Area mom of two dropped off her kids at school. She grabbed lunch with a friend, and then headed to San Jose State where she attended two classes. At 2:45 p.m., she was scheduled for an optometrist’s appointment in Los Gatos. But Cathy never showed. Hours passed, and she didn’t come home. Worried loved ones reported her missing. Two days later, Cathy’s Chrysler New Yorker was found parked at San Jose Airport. A colorful,...
Families from all over the Bay Area drove to Chabot Observatory Friday night to catch a glimpse of the rare Northern Lights over Northern California.
President Biden raised millions of dollars for his reelection bid in Silicon Valley on Friday as he poked at former President Trump and argued that his campaign was being underestimated. “The press doesn’t want to write about it, but the momentum is clearly in our favor, with polls moving toward us and away from Trump,” he said, noting that 1.6 million people have donated to the campaign, nearly all less than $200 each. He said his campaign has opened 150 offices in battleground states “and...
PORTOLA VALLEY, Calif. (KRON) — President Joe Biden was met with pro-Palestinian protesters outside a fundraiser in Portola Valley on Friday. The president arrived in the Bay Area on Thursday
The president is in the Bay Area to raise more funds for his reelection campaign, which in March set a record for the single biggest haul for a political event.
President Joe Biden landed Thursday evening at Moffett Field Air Base in Mountain View for a short visit to the Bay Area for campaign fundraisers.
A pair of thieves stole two sports cars by driving them off a showroom floor and through the windows of a dealership in Fremont last month. Now, one of the two suspects is in custody. The Fremont Police Department said Wednesday that they have arrested a 22-year-old Hayward man who is accused of stealing a Porsche GT3 from the dealership on April 4. The other car, a Porsche GT3 RS, was found in Milpitas the same day as the burglary and was recovered. The driver of the Porsche GT3 RS is still at...
President Joe Biden will visit the Bay Area this week as part of a brief fundraising swing across the West Coast. Biden will arrive in San Francisco on Thursday before heading to two fundraising events in the region on Friday. He will depart the area later that day to head to campaign stops scheduled to take place in the Seattle area. One of Friday’s Bay Area events will reportedly be held at the Portola Valley home of wealthy venture capitalist Vinod Khosla, the billionaire co-founder of Sun...
Racially or religiously motivated hate crime has remained at historically high levels for the past three years